Discovering Your Own Stream ♥: And so Couponing begins... My new Hobby!

I have been an going after great deals for the past 8 months or so. After buying our own home and being on our own, I've been trying to save every cent where I can. Even if it means price matching that only saves 2 cents here and there. I don't see any point in paying more than I need to.

I started buying a couple extra items when they were a good price. I packed up at case lot sales. And on a usual Walmart trip I price match from 4 or 5 stores.

I have very strong negative feeling towards Walmart. I hate their new obsession of "Saving people Money." From experience about 70% of cashiers hate ad matching.

(Either because they lack the know-how or they are just extremely LAZY)

Usually you have a 50/50 chance of getting a cashier that can just ring your items through without a problem. It usually takes luck to get a good one!

Extreme Couponing, reccommends: Young, Easy going, MALEs haha

All you need is someone who is friendly, and knows how to do their job :)

I've only had ONE cashier actually throw a fit, complain very loudly, and tell me I can't do that, I can't do that....

And she was WRONG. Another cashier told her they could match it. The manager told her to do it.

And I've only had TWO cashiers that were totally surprised, impressed,

and even asked me where I found that good of a deal.

It is such a PAIN to save money at Walmart. BUT I can buy several items at the LOWEST price in one store. (That is if Walmart carrys it and stocks their shelves) But that is another issue itself!

I've been watching the NEW popular TLC show "Extreme Couponing" I love it. I'm addicted, but it is frustrating because in Utah "Double Couponing" is hard to come by.

LAME, makes me want to move to another state!

I may not be able to get over a thousand dollars of groceries for free,

but I'll be hunting for the best deals I can get!

As a beginner, Online you can print coupons for $1 off toothpaste (including trial and travel size) dental floss, and Purex wipes. There is also a coupon I found that will get you $1 off an Air Wick warmer. And guess what?? They are all not only FREE they are MONEYMAKERS!

I made .03 cents off of the floss, Purex, and toothpaste. And .06 cents from the Air Wick warmer.

After tax I paid .02 cents for these 4 items! Defineately the least amount I've ever spent at Walmart.

Smiths was doing a promotion for cereal. If you buy 4 boxes of cereal you get a $5.00 Smith's gift card. I decided that since I usually price match my eggs and milk from them, I would defineately use it in the future.

On top of that I used (4) 75cents off coupons making them just 50 cents a box taking in the $5.00 card bonus. My total came to $10.27, including tax and coupons. Turns out that not all of the cereals that qualify for the card are on sale. After figuring that out I decided to return them, and the Customer Service lady offered me another $5.00. So I made my purchase of 10.27, and recieved $10.00.

I paid 27 cents for 4 boxes of cereal! Only .06 cents per box!! Turned out quite nicely, on accident :)

Priced at over 2.50 at Walmart, I found these at Target for $1.97. I used two coupons that were Buy 2 Get 1 FREE. I bought 4 and got 2 FREE! Making them $1.31 each!! These are Yummy and I love that they don't have Aspartame (artificial sweetener) in them like regular Crystal Light.

Last Fall I got Stove Top on sale for 75 cents a box.

These were 99 cents, with two 50 cent off coupons I got them for 49 cents each!

Parchment Paper was priced at Walmart for $2.84. Target had Parchment Paper and Foil on sale for $2.50. I had two coupons for $1.50 off two. (75 cents off each) Making them $1.75 each!!

So excited to make some cookies with these!

On sale for 97 cents. I got them for 47 cents each.

It could have been as low as 22 cents if I had a different coupon.

I used a $1.50 off coupon on one. I had two 75 cent off coupons for the bottom two. They were priced at 2.62 at Walmart, Target had them for 2.49 making them $1.74 each. Not to bad :)